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Monday, November 28, 2016

Nepal: We Must Gather the Good Minded People Everywhere

Students and faculty at women's college in Kathmandu this morning - just three hours after an earthquake woke us from our deep sleep

We arrived in Nepal yesterday afternoon via a flight from Delhi. Up early in the morning we flew from Nagpur to Delhi national airport and then took a bus to Delhi international. As we approached Delhi international airport we saw a massive billboard with a military helicopter on it and the Boeing logo alongside. Words on the billboard were "This is our future".

The people of India are being enticed, lead, directed, forced (you pick the appropriate word) into the waiting arms of the US military industrial complex that is now salivating over the market potential of India. India is led today by the nationalist corporate dominated Modi government in Delhi. The US plan for 'full spectrum dominace' via space control and domination carries a massive cost that even Washington (even after years of austerity cuts in our country) can't afford to pay for on its own. Thus the Pentagon's #1 job these days is to take a silver cup in hand and secure commitments from allied governments around the globe to help the US become the 'Master of Space'. (Note the patch on the arm of the woman below at the US Space Command - click on the photo for a better view.)

We have received a very warm welcome here in the land-locked nation of Nepal that sits on the border of both India and China. As the US attempts to bring India 'onside' in its plans for war with China the people of Nepal are in a precarious position.

This morning we were taken to speak at a women's college just a block or so from our hotel. About fifty students and faculty listened to our talks and afterward they took us to the meager campus cafeteria for tea. There was much interest in what we had to say. One of the women professors told me, "It is ironic for me that America wants to be the Master of Space and that I learn about it from an American. Everything is American."

Following that event we were taken to Nepal's oldest college called Patan Multiple Campus which has several locations serving 7,000 students. We met with a dozen people, mostly faculty from various departments, and had the most moving discussion of our trip. In addition to talking about the realities of the Pentagon's mission of 'security export' on behalf of corporate interests the discussion lead to the spiritual disconnection of the planet's people. One professor began his comments by first greeting us with the word Namaste which is the recognition of the divine spirit (or soul) in another by the divine spirit in you.

The professor asked how the Global Network was integrating the need to heal the broken spirit in the collective mind and spirit of people around the world. Peace of mind is necessary for the human being, he said. "We must make people human beings again....money is everywhere....we must gather the good people, good minded people....selfishness is an epidemic across the world. This is the time. Let us accept all the people of the world."

With tears in my eyes I thanked the professor for his beautiful words and told him that this is indeed a message that is part of our work at the Global Network. We agree with all our heart that we must heal the broken circle - we must heal our relationship to Mother Earth.

I suggested that the idea of the US Space Command becoming the 'Master of Space' is one sign of the current human sickness. I told about Standing Rock in North Dakota where today Native Americans and their many supporters from around our country are rallying to stop the 'Black Snake' oil pipeline along the Missouri River. The native people call themselves water protectors as they try to defend our sacred Mother Earth - water is life. It is all the same struggle.

We were woken this morning about 5:00 am when our beds shook and as I bolted awake I thought of earthquakes remembering the terrible one that hit here last year that killed nearly
9,000 people and damaged nearly one million houses and buildings. The quake this morning was a moderate one that hit about 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of Kathmandu. It wasn't until we had breakfast here at the hotel that we learned the rumbling was indeed an earthquake.

We leave here on November 30 and head back to Delhi before flying home. Before we leave Nepal we will do at least three more talks at various colleges in the area - going back again to Patan Multiple Campus where the Campus Chief ordered that all faculty and students be invited to hear our words again on Wednesday morning prior to our departure. We were taken to his office this morning following the meeting with faculty and after hearing reports on that meeting he approved a campus wide invitation for another meeting.

1 Comments:

Tom M Culhane said...

India was once covered with rainforest, but at 1.3 billion people today, it is now 100 percent gone. China, similar story. Europe also was covered in forest and overpopulation has reduced it to near zero. (see the Last Yoik in Saami Forest vids on youtube as the Saami people struggle to save the last of their forests from corporate logging...) I've known for 40 years that humanity needs to radically depopulate to live in harmony with Mother Earth, but it falls on deaf ears. In fact people get hostile when you suggest we SOLVE problems.

I've lived most all my adult life without a car, but I can't name many others like me. I've made 4 attempts to form a community in the country with our own food, energy, cabins, off the grid, wood burning school bus to town twice a week... nobody is interested. Based on the matrilineal family structure, where there is no marriage, the brother is guardian of a woman's children, kin on mother's side form family. This is the most natural of family structures, allows people to live in harmony in groups without jealousy... no one was interested...